Formative Fictions : Nationalism, Cosmopolitanism, and the Bildungsroman /
The "Bildungsroman", or "novel of formation, " has long led a paradoxical life within literary studies, having been construed both as a peculiarly German genre, a marker of that country's cultural difference from Western Europe, and as a universal expression of modernity. In 'Formative Fictions', To...
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Ithaca, NY :
Cornell University Press :
2012.
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Sommario:
- The limits of national form : normativity and performativity in Bildungsroman criticism
- Apprenticeship of the novel : Goethe and the invention of history
- Epigonal consciousness : Stendhal, Immermann, and the "problem of generations" around 1830
- Long-distance fantasies : Freytag, Eliot, and national literature in the age of empire
- Urban vernaculars : Joyce, Döblin, and the "individuating rhythm" of modernity
- Conclusion : apocalipsis cum figuris : Thomas Mann and the Bildungsroman at the ends of time.